The least noticed fact about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, of the notorious Cordoba House/Islamic Cultural Center/Park 51 proposed in lower Manhattan, was that he is a Sufi. Radical Islamists hate Sufis. Today, two suicide bombers in Karachi showed just how much.
In effect, those who demonized Rauf,…
→ Todd Gitlin: Sufis blown up in Pakistan
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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